John Van Lear FINDLAY

(1839-1907)

FINDLAY, John Van Lear, a
Representative from Maryland; born at Mount Tammany, near
Williamsport, Washington County, Md., December 21, 1839; was
privately tutored and pursued classical studies; was graduated from
Princeton College in 1858; member of the State house of delegates
in 1861 and 1862; studied law; was admitted to the bar and
commenced practice in Baltimore, Md., in 1869; collector of
internal revenue for the third district of Maryland at Baltimore in
1865 and 1866; appointed city solicitor for Baltimore in 1876 and
served two years; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth and
Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1887); resumed the
practice of law; appointed a member of the Venezuelan Claims
Commission in 1889; nominated as arbitrator on the Chilean Claims
Commission in 1893, but the Senate rejected the nomination; died in
Baltimore, Md., April 19, 1907; interment in Greenmount
Cemetery.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present